As mentioned in Chapter 2, Governance and Contributions, new ideas brought to the Eclipse MicroProfile project are first tried in the MicroProfile sandbox following an implementation-first approach to innovation. The sandbox exercise gives the opportunity for the implementor and the community to discuss, analyze, and evaluate how this new idea fits in with the MicroProfile project. If, at the end of the sandbox exercise, the community deems that this new idea is worth adding to the project, a specific MicroProfile sub-project is created for it. The sub-project must issue at least one release before it can be considered for addition to a MicroProfile umbrella/platform release. At a very high-level, this is the process that new ideas and future developments follow under the MicroProfile project.
In the next sections, we will discuss two types of...